Dream holidays

 

On our dream trip we visited a first world country in Western Europe.

Germany.

In this country we visited one of the Nazi concentration camps called Sachsenhausen, this is located in Orianenburg 40 kilometers from Berlin, they explained to us that this concentration camp was built in 1936 and housed more than 200,000 prisoners. It was intended to exploit the prisoners by forcing them to work in very poor conditions. Many people died in these camps because of the conditions in which they lived and because they were killed. Within this camp, what most caught our attention were the gas chambers where they put the prisoners to assassinate them, so that they would not suspect they were told that they were going to take them to the showers. Some were just being shot. Then the bodies were removed from their dentures in case they had any gold teeth and with the skin they got to make lamps, soaps and much more. What was left of the bodies was cremated in the ovens and the ashes were used as compost.

We were surprised by the heavy work that the prisoners did, there was a very large track where they had to test the quality of the shoes they made and put them to walk around 40 kilometers a day, some of them died from sunstroke and fatigue.

We also visited the famous Berlin Wall and the Holocaust Memorial. They are both full of a great and very interesting story. We stayed at the Hilton hotel for three days. On our first day the weather was cold, on our second day it was rainy for that reason we could not visit the philharmonic orchestra and listen to the beauty of their melodies. Finally our third day was warmer and we were able to go out and buy souvenirs for our families. We hope to return soon.

Produced by: Jaqueline Landeros Vega and Adán Mancilla Reyes